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PE at Holbrook Primary

For the last two academic years (2016-2017/2017-2018) Holbrook has maintained a Silver School Games award for our PE provision and commitments to sports literacy. At Holbrook Primary we are committed to providing children with a wide and varied curriculum. Children at Holbrook are provided with at least 2 hours of timetabled PE sessions during curriculum time and additional extra-curricular sports run every single day of the week, before, lunchtimes and after school. Curriculum PE covers a wide range of disciplines where children learn new skills, hone their abilities and put them to play in game scenarios. Children are constantly challenge to push themselves to improve their knowledge from previous sessions and are given opportunities to showcase their skills at sporting events. Our curriculum covers dance, gymnastics, swimming, invasion games, team work skills, problem solving outdoor and adventurous skills and health education. Extra-curriculum sports includes tennis, multi-skills, fencing and archery, running, rugby, basketball, athletics and cricket to name a few.

At Holbrook Primary we aim to ensure children:

Develop skills and technique in a range of physical activities

Are physically active for sustained periods of time

Have opportunities to take part in competitive sports

Lead healthy and active lifestyles

At Key Stage 1, pupils will develop fundamental movement skills (physical literacy), become increasingly confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. At Key Stage 2, pupils will apply and develop a broader range of skills, learning how to use them in different ways and to link them to make actions and sequences of movement. They will develop an understanding of how to improve in different physical activities and learn how to evaluate and recognise their own and others successes. In years 4, 5 and 6, pupils will be taught to swim competently, using a range of strokes and perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

Holbrook’s most recent OFSTED stated, “Pupils love the extensive range of physical activities which are offered. From tennis, to cross country, to dinghy sailing at Alton Water. The reception area is overflowing with trophies that pupils have won, and of which they are rightly proud. Such experiences as a visiting Olympic athlete ensure pupils’ continued interest not just in sport but also in healthy eating, perseverance and the taste of success.”